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On the Oscar nominations, or Harry Potter's lack thereof.
The only nominations the entire movie got? The artistic departments. If you did not work on Art Direction, Makeup, or Visual Effects, no Harry Potter DH2 Oscar nomination for you, period.
( Discussion as this relates to the scene known by book fandom as 'The Elder Wand' and to owners of the DVD or Blu-ray as 'Your Mother's Eyes' ) -
In 'Unwanted Moments Of Growing Up'
That moment when you realize that most of your favorite actors and actresses are older than you - some being older than your parents - and that therefore you WILL most likely one day have to read The Sad News In The Paper for most of them ( Read more... ) -
Some thoughts on the DH Part 2 movie re: Snape
And if you haven't seen it... yeah, you aren't going to understand all that much of this, since most of it is about how The Scene That Ought To Get Rickman An Oscar compares to the book version.
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Their PhDs Are Still Written In Crayon
"Surfing for Sex: What do a billion Web searches reveal about desire?"And, according to that article, there will be a LIVE WEBCHAT with everyone in fandom's 'favorite' people, oh they who were behind The Pervy Survey AKA SurveyFail, at Thursday at noon Eastern Time ( Read more... ) -
My Personal Gripe About The Last Airbender Movie
Yes, there's been rage all over the place about the racial issues with the casting ( Read more... ) -
In world news...
Johanna Sigurdardottir is now not only the world's first openly gay head of state (as Iceland's Prime Minister), but as of today the world's first married openly gay head of state.
She and Jonina Leosdottir have had civil union since 2002, and had it converted to a marriage under the new law that came into effect today.
The article in the ( Read more... ) -
*screams*
So, I had switched this online identity from using Yahoo to Gmail yesterday ( Read more... ) -
Watching yet another Black Holes science special.
Granted, this one's better than most (Yay, NOVA).
But once, just once, I'd like one of them to do this:
"A black hole is like a genie. It warps the laws of physics to where some of them might as well not exist, contains phenomenal cosmic power and has itty bitty living spaceAnd then Disney would probably sue the production company until the ( Read more... ) -
More Icons
I made more Girl Genius icons.
These cover the pages from today and also this past Friday.
( 58 Icons, 2 of which are animated )